Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-08-12
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
An Interesting Summary Of the
Important Occurrences OF
the Week.
A Budget Of News Cleaned From the
Latest Dispatches From Far
and Near.
ADHICEs BY TELEGRAM.

| "A. W. Wi kins editor o. the Whitehall
Times and president OF the New York Press
association, is dead.
Senator Sherman and party have arrived
in Toroi to, Canada.
Mrs Grover Cleveland, accompanied by
her mot er and aunt. have arrived at Marion,
Mass The party will be the guests of Gen.
A. W. Morev who has his summer res dence
there.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin has presented
the freedom of tue city of Dublin to Hon
Patrick A. Collins, of Boston, Mass, as the
representative of millions OF Irish people
banished from their native land by land ord
ism and oppression
Mrs. Langtrs rea he'd Chicago on spe-
bal train from San Francisco the other day,
accompanied by Freddy Gebhardt, of New
York. They dined tete-a-tee at the Hotel
Richelieu, and left in the af ernoon for the
east They travelled together in q special car.
Mrs. Lang'ry was apparently in good health
and Mr. Gebhari. was as attent W and SOL
c,tous as ever. Mrs. Ian try signed her
name in person on the hotel register, but
Freddy mcdesty declined to leave his auto
gralh for the curious inspection of the
crowd.
The Gar recently sounded the Ameer of
Bohhara as to whether his subjects would
ass st Russia in the event Of war The aimee
replied that his subjects were Moslems aud
would rebel If he assisted Russia proc
lanai on of the Gar has been posted on the
gates CT S,maccand, promising that Russia
will not interfere with the Turkomans and
Usebks, provided the Russian troops are al
lowed free passage through tho Country
-Advices from Malta say there have been
two fatal cases of cholera there, and that
foul bills of health are being issued to ves-
sells departing from the islands
Commits 'oner Sparks has completed the
adj in ,ment of the grant to the State of Wis
consin by acts of June 3. 1856, and May 5,
1864, to aid in what is now the Chicago. S !.
Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railway The
commissioner finds the area, OF grant, .ft r
delucting the quantity exc uded from the OPP
Grafton Of the grant by reservations under
prlcr grants, ETC., to be G54,2 acres. OF
this amount 49s, G0l acres have already been
approved, ~, l24 are vacant and subject to
selection, which added 10 3O,6S2 acres, the
amount of indemnity heretofore approved,
leaves s., S05 acres as the amount of indam
nifty due.
Ala recent conference of green glass man
ufacturers and wor]smen in Pittsbu e, an ami
cable sett ement of The wage question and
working rules for the ensuing year was af-
feced. The wage scale is the same as that
in force last year.
The strike of the employees of the Black
Diamond steel works of Park Bros & Co.. of
Pittsb ry, for recognition of the In gifts of
Labor, failed, and work has been resumed in
oil departments
Pending All appea' of his case to the su-
prone court, Paul Grottkau, the anarchist
ed tor of the .4rbeitcr Zcitnny who was con-
v;csel Of melting labor riots i'll Milwaukee last
year and sentenced TO one years lmprison-
n cnt, was rel eased OH bail Alarmed by the
report that he was about to flee to Germany.
his bondsmen surrendered him 10 the sheriff
Trouble is the result OF the row in which the
entire socialist section is concerned, the lead
ers OF which are having lively rumpus
among themselves. Grottkau will have to re-
main in Jail until the supreme court arrives
ut decision, which will not be 8. oner than
November
-Advices from Panama, dated July %,
say: The famine which is raging ut An
t:ognia is at its height. In San Vincente TWO
children in one family have died of starvation
Twenty thousand dollars have been raised in
Medellin, but this is not enough. The relic
committee in Rio Negro has 200 families to
support.